1 Chapter 10 “There Was No Dutch School of Phenomenology of Religion” – The Netherlands Markus Altena Davidsen Jan G. Platvoet Leiden University Published in 2021 in Satoko Fujiwara, David Thurfjel, and Steven Engler (eds.), Global Phenomenologies of Religion: An Oral History in Interviews, London: Equinox. Abstract This chapter contains an interview with Jan G. Platvoet, a retired Associate Professor from Leiden University, about the rise and fall of the phenomenology of religion in the Netherlands (c. 1877-1973). Reviewing the complex history from Tiele and Chantepie de la Saussaye through Van der Leeuw to Waardenburg, Platvoet points out several overlooked facts of crucial importance for the history of the study of religion. As a corrective to Anglophone scholarship, Platvoet stresses that Dutch phenomenology of religion developed independently of and prior to Husserl’s philosophical phenomenology. More surprising, perhaps, is the fact that there was very little interaction among the Dutch phenomenologists of religion, and that both Van der Leeuw and Waardenburg, despite their international fame, were academically isolated figures in the Netherlands where they had little influence and no academic heirs. The absence of a ‘Dutch school’ made possible the rapid collapse of Dutch phenomenology of religion during the 1970s. The interview is followed by a commentary by Markus Altena Davidsen. Keywords Phenomenology of religion, history of the study of religion, comparison, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Theo van Baaren, the Netherlands